FIGHTING CONTINUES
IN SUBURBS OF MADRID TANKS TRAPPED IN PITS. CREWS BURNT TO DEATH. (Independent Cable Service.) MADRID, March 14. Though the Defence Council apparently has full control of the city, the Communists are holding the outei' suburbs. where heavy fighting was reported at midnight. Many of General Casado’s tanks were trapped in pits and then set on fire with bottles of petrol. The crews were burnt to death. COMMUNIST HOARD. DISCOVERY IN MILLIONAIRE’S FORMER HOME. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MADRID. March 14. After the expulsion of the Communists from the former home of the millionaire. Senor Juan March, the police discovered a hoard of art treasures, and money believed to be the proceeds of confiscations carried out by the Communists early in the war. All are being handed over to the Defence Council. FOREIGN AID FOR FRANCO. LONDON, March 14. Answering a question in the House of Commons today, the Foreign Undersecretary. Mr R. A. Butler, said that reports indicated that General Franco had continued to receive assistance from Germany and Italy since the beginning of November, 1938,' but it was impossible to give particulars.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1939, Page 5
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